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The mega-hyped "Fifty Shades of Grey" is finally upon us, and even with Christian Grey's Red Room full of floggers and ropes, and Anastasia Steele's willingness to submit to them, the adaptation of E.L. James' bestselling erotic romance is being met with tepid reviews, puzzlement and yawns. In fact, the best that can be said about "Fifty Shades" is that it offers a stark reminder that there actually are movies other movies that know how to "do" sex. So thank Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan for making us consider some of the more memorable and meaningful, iconic and erotic sex scenes of films past and present. From the risque days of pre-Code...

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The mega-hyped "Fifty Shades of Grey" is finally upon us, and even with Christian Grey's Red Room full of floggers and ropes, and Anastasia Steele's willingness to submit to them, the adaptation of E.L. James' bestselling erotic romance is being...

San Juan Bautista, San Juan Bautista
15th mission
1797
This mission, operated by the Catholic Church, is at the heart of the sleepy town of San Juan Bautista (population 1,862) and faces a broad, grassy plaza, part of San Juan Bautista State Historic...

Alternative-movie offerings are plentiful this fall. In addition to festivals featuring indie and foreign films — the Feminist Film Festival, the EROS gay film festival, the Festival of Ibero American Cinema, the Manhattan Short Film Festival — there will...

Here's the theory. Well before the advent of photography, in paintings of paradoxically photorealistic light and detail such as "Girl With a Pearl Earring" and "The Music Lesson," 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer may have...

Before things took off with "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and "Beetlejuice," Tim Burton made a live-action black-and-white film, in 1984, called "Frankenweenie." You can find it on YouTube. It's really good.
Just about...

Baltimore is one city where crowds come out in the heat of the night to take in open-air movies.
In mid-July last year, when the thermometer was hitting 95 in the day and stalling in the 80s past midnight, fun-seekers swarmed to Federal Hill to watch...

While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article:
The history
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